Modified Cooperative Integrated Reading Comprehension through Genre Based Approach to Promote Students' Reading Achievement

This research investigated whether there is any significant difference in students’ reading comprehension between students who taught by using Genre-Based Cooperative Integrated Reading Comprehension (GBCIRC) and those who taught by using Cooperative Integrated Reading Comprehension (CIRC), and their perceptions towards GBCIRC. This study applied the true experimental design. There were 32 experimental students and 32 control students as the sample chosen randomly at SMAN 1 Seputih Mataram. To collect the data, test, and questionnaire were employed. Data from the test were analyzed with SPSS resulting significance value that was lower than Sig level (0.00˂0.05) meaning that there is a significant difference between students who taught by using Genre-Based Cooperative Integrated Reading Comprehension (GBCIRC) and those who taught by using Cooperative Integrated Reading Comprehension (CIRC). Furthermore, data from the questionnaire were analyzed with descriptive statistic resulting that the students perceived positively towards the implementation of GBCIRC. Hence, GBCIRC is preferable to use and can promote students’ comprehension achievement. Keywords: Cooperative Integrated Reading Comprehension (CIRC), Genre-Based Cooperative Integrated Reading Comprehension (GBCIRC), reading comprehension, perception.